[Pharmboy]

For whatever reason, these guys could paint.

[Pharmboy]

Art and medicine ping...

[mtbopfuyn]

Proof that abstract is diseased.

[CholeraJoe]

Well, we’ve always known Van Gough had glaucoma due to the halos painted around lights in someof his later works.

[woofie]

Art Ping

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[Dante3]

Interesting.

[maclogo]

For what it’s worth, I’m a graphic artist and have pretty much had trouble with color identification all my life. Been in the business for 35 years and have always been able to work around it by using Pantone color swatch books and knowing what “numbers” were what colors. For the past 15 yeas, I've worked on a Mac doing logos and printed matter. That has helped also. (And, that's where I got my name)... :-)=

[nicollo]

After seeing the exhibition, "Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings (at the Huntington through April 29), I came away convinced that Constable was red/green color blind:

John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821. Oil on canvas, 51 ¼ x 73 inches. The National Gallery, London.

Now, since I'm red/green color blind, maybe I just couldn't make out those colors in the paintings... BUT, as I looked upon the huge canvasses I saw in them what I see when I'm outside. Sunsets, trees, and other objects that have subtle color distinctions blur for me, so what draws my attention is the play and brilliance of light, not necessarily its hues.

When others watch sunsets, I turn around and look at how the setting sunlight lands on things behind me: buildings, grass, trees, roadways... all catch the light differently. I felt like I was seeing that along with Constable in those magnificent paintings.

If you're anywhere near the Huntington (Pasadena), get there and fast to see this exhibit.

[DejaJude]

Until I got glasses in my 40’s, I saw the world as the impressionists. It wasn’t till then that I actually saw individual leaves on trees. The impressionists are still my favorites.

[SuzyQue]

Astigmatism?

[SunkenCiv]

Impressionism isn’t my favorite school of art (to put it mildly). It is much better in person than as a print, moreso than any other genre of painting, but I’d rather look at original PRB stuff, and all those guys were high and sharing the same hookers.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says

I think it's lots simpler than that - they do different drugs.

[Dante3]

Yes!